Schizophrenia and Autism Linked
Investigators at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City found several cohesive gene networks affected in schizophrenia and determined that these gene networks overlap with autism.
"Very interestingly, the networks that we find for schizophrenia and for autism are quite similar," senior author Dennis Vitkup, PhD, told Medscape Medical News.
"This suggests that these 2 diseases, and probably many other psychiatric diseases, overlap in terms of the processes they perturb; they perturb some processes important for early brain development," added Dr. Vitkup.
The study was published online November 11 in Nature Neuroscience.
No comments:
Post a Comment